FEMA Wants Over $300M in Katrina Aid Back

1010wins ^ | By FRANK BASS and MICHELLE ROBERTS

[DH]

Trying to get money back from these deadbeats will be like trying to poke butter up a wildcat's ass with a red hot poker.

Good Luck!

[spikeytx86]

I want a 36 inch waistline too, but I think I will be modeling for Calvin Kline before Uncle Sam sees a nickle back.

[jimtorr]

Typical.

There has been a constant drumbeat of criticism of FEMA, and attacks on Bush, about how FEMA did not react quickly enough. Now that the extent of the fraud is being revealed, there will be constant criticism about waste.

[Thrownatbirth]

Check Jefferson's freezer again.

[Lurker]

I lost track of the number of times I said "No sh**." while reading this.

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[Uncle Ike]

Funny --

The people who squawked, at the time, for the Gummint to cover Louisiana waist-deep in dollar bills, and that would make everything all better.....

Are now finding out that "waist deep" means "waste deep" -- and there's nothing "all better" about it.....

[Dahoser]

Wait! I thought all the money that could have gone to Louisiana went to Iraq instead.

[Zack Nguyen]

At least 162,750 homes that didn't exist before the storms may have received a total of more than $1 billion in improper or illegal payments, the AP found.

But...but...the federal government was racist in not supplying enough funds to Katrina victims.

[Lurker]

Dixon, 25, said she saw people bilk taxpayers while she fought for basic assistance to help feed and clothe her five children, ages 1 to 10.

She had her first kid at 15. She never had a chance.

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[dforest]

This is what happens when the government passes out money in a big hurry based on media and Democrat party hype and guilt. When it comes to Katrina, no sound judgement was used, which opened up huge opportunities for defrauding the American taxpayers. I am still waiting for sanity to someday return to this nation.

[Dosa26]

Good luck getting it back from the guy my buddy used to work with. He got his fraud check and smoked himself to death on crack within a week. Good investment for the gov imo.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Other than pay for infrastructure and restore basic services, there should have been zero tax dollars to NOLA. Just declare the area a tax-free enterprise zone and let the private sector work its magic.

NOLA would have been up and running by now, IMO.

[Calpernia]

THAT was funny!

[Calpernia]

Let's not forget this tidbit:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493302/posts
FR Exclusive: John Kerry, Mary Landrieu, MoveOn DNC and Katrina

[Dosa26]

Other than pay for infrastructure and restore basic services, there should have been zero tax dollars to NOLA

Declare the city a national security asset and put it under the military industrial diumvaratte with limited local control. If they don't like it declare it a military reserve. The people there have failed to administer it properly. I'm in a bad mood.

[beaversmom]

...and she was one of three such people who received a total of $6,358 in checks.

In March 2006, she was convicted of mail fraud, sentenced to four months' home detention and ordered to pay a $100 fine.

All in all, I'd say that crime paid for Ms. Grimes.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Nothing like "closing the barn door after the horse is gone".

[DungeonMaster]

Trying to get money back from these deadbeats will be like trying to poke butter up a wildcat's ass with a red hot poker.

Or like drilling a hole in water.

[texastoo]

This is what happens when the government passes out money in a big hurry based on media and Democrat party hype and guilt. When it comes to Katrina, no sound judgement was used, which opened up huge opportunities for defrauding the American taxpayers. I am still waiting for sanity to someday return to this nation.

This is what happens when the government has toooooo much money. Defrauding continues to this day by the government incompetents.

Last week I was driving U.S.59 through Mississippi. At Purvis, Mississippi on the side of the road were acres and acres of FEMA camper type trailors. These are parked about 2 to 3 feet apart without any hookup as no one is living in them. The rolling land is white with these trailors. Unreal! I have been told that the owner of this land gets $1 per trailor per day for parking. This is a sweetheart deal which is a little different from fraud. LOL